Decision-making under great uncertainty: environmental management in an era of global change

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (8) ◽  
pp. 398-404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Polasky ◽  
Stephen R. Carpenter ◽  
Carl Folke ◽  
Bonnie Keeler
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Global Change ◽  
Great Uncertainty

scholarly journals The incorporation of Māori environmental values as part of the Ruamāhanga Whaitua Implementation Programme in the Wellington Region, Aotearoa New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Bryn Cal Hickson Rowden
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Environmental Decision Making ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Local Government Level ◽  
Implementation Programme

<p>In recent years, there has been significant efforts to create frameworks in which Māori values are incorporated as part of environmental management processes in Aotearoa New Zealand(Forster, 2014; Harmsworth et al., 2016). This research explores the factors that influence the incorporation of Māori values at the local government level, and what barriers Māori values face to being incorporated in environmental management. This research focused on a case study of the Ruamāhanga Whaitua Committe Implementation Programme process in the Wellington region. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect information on the opinions of members of the Ruamāhanga Whaitua Committee. The interviews were analysed using a critical theory approach. The research found that there was a clear discrepancy between the values and behaviours expressed by some non-Māori members of the Committee. The result of such a discrepancy was that Māori values were not sufficiently part of environmental decision making. Such a discrepancy was a result of the political structures of the Regional Council’s Whaitua Implementation Programme process. The majority of the decision-making power was found to be situated ‘higher’ up in the organisation, outside of the Committee. Overall this research found that there are important opportunities to make sure iwi values are not only included, but form the basis of decisions.</p>

scholarly journals PORT WASTE MANAGEMENT FOR PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN RIO DE JANEIRO

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aurélio Lamare Soares Murta ◽  
Nerlandes Nerlandes Nunes De Oliveira ◽  
Fernando Da Silva Pereira ◽  
Humberto Santiago Pazzini
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Global Change ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Port Area ◽  
Emergency Actions

The purpose of this article is to elaborate a diagnosis of the port area and the socioenvironmental management of the Port of Rio de Janeiro, beyond of delineate their profile and proposes actions to improve the management of solid waste. To attainment the goals we conducted a literature review and interviews with the environmental manager of the Port of Rio de Janeiro and researchers with the International Virtual Institute of Global Change – IVIG from COPPE/UFRJ. The study has identified ineffective waste management of the Port of Rio de Janeiro beyond generate unnecessary costs with emergency actions and attracts harmful synanthropic fauna: cockroaches, scorpions and rodents. This is because environmental management, among other factors, is presented by the inadequate supervision inefficient, poor technology, inadequate infrastructure, environmental education and sprayed lack of integration between the actors involved. Thus, integration between government, private sector, third sector and consumers would become a sustainable, effective and viable waste management port.

Decision Making for Environmental Management

1998 ◽  
pp. 243-288
Author(s):  
N. B. Harmancioglu ◽  
O. Fistikoglu ◽  
S. D. Ozkul ◽  
M. N. Alpaslan
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Decision Making

The post-normal sciences of precaution

2005 ◽  
Vol 52 (6) ◽  
pp. 11-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Ravetz
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Corporate Control ◽  
Applied Science ◽  
Normal Science ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Puzzle Solving ◽  
Peer Community ◽  
Quality Decision

After centuries of optimism, science has become problematic and compromised. We can no longer assume that innovations are safe until proven dangerous. The ‘technocratic’ approach to science, with its reductionist methodology and its corporate control, is no longer appropriate. We need a ‘precautionary’ science that will be ‘post-normal’ in character. For this, we contrast ‘applied science,’ like the ‘puzzle-solving’ of Kuhn's ‘normal science’ and the ‘professional consultancy’ like the practice of the surgeon or engineer. Rather, we have a situation where ‘facts are uncertain, values in dispute, stakes high, and decisions urgent.’ For high-quality decision-making, we need an ‘extended peer community’ who will bring their ‘extended facts’ to the dialogue. There are a number of initiatives that advance the post-normal programme, including the endeavours of Poul Harremoës and the conference on Uncertainty and Precaution in Environmental Management.

SWS 2015 Feminist Lecture

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 869-889 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manisha Desai
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Global Change ◽  
Women Activists ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
World Social Forum ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
The World ◽  
Justice Movements

The World Social Forum (WSF)—a global gathering of social movements and a process of global change—has come to signify the global justice movements. Since its inception in 2001 in Brazil it has traveled across the Global South, with the 2016 WSF in Montreal. As the WSF has traveled across the world, it has reflected the particular geographies and histories of movement politics in each place. Yet everywhere it has demonstrated what I have called the gendered geographies of struggle. By gendered geographies I mean the epistemic, spatial, and praxis divisions along gender lines evident in the marginalizing of feminist insights about the global political economy and global justice; low representation of women activists in public plenaries and private decision-making structures; and outsourcing of gender issues to women’s activists and movements. Without addressing these gendered geographies, I argue, there can be no global justice.

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